Mind the Product

JULY 30, 2019

Roisi Proven is a true product person: she has a penchant for imagining the worst, which she’s turned into a superpower to put all of her product decisions through a rigorous ethics test. The Black Mirror Test. The post The Black Mirror Test – Roisi Proven on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2019

He joined us to talk about product/market fit: what it is, how to know when you have it, and how to achieve it. The definition of product-market fit:] When customers agree that your product creates enough value for them relative to the other options that are available. What is product/market fit? Quote of the Episode.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

You’re not working the same way, and your customers have different needs than they did a month ago. What are we learning from customers that we don’t have to worry about learning over and over again, versus what’s the part that can be disrupted at any moment? Customer Discovery. Remote Working.

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Centercode

APRIL 11, 2019

Whether it’s the rise of AI, CI/CD, or DevOps, the lines between testing and development are blurring. But as testing methodologies evolve and bleed into development, professional testers are questioning how this evolution will affect their role in product development. Many people are jumping on the test automation bandwagon.

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Amplitude

JULY 29, 2020

Instead, your product strategy should be a framework centered around providing value to your customers that helps you decide which tactics to explore. Think of product strategy as a hypothesis to be tested. For example, Netflix’s product vision is “becoming the best global entertainment distribution service.”.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 24, 2019

In the meantime, we’re re-running two episodes that fit the theme of the season: reflection and planning for 2020. And while we spend a lot of time focusing on the things that we’re building and obsessing over our users, it becomes easy to neglect ourselves. Lily’s Pick. Lily’s Pick.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 4, 2018

I also think it’s important to communicate how challenging it is to blend art and science, to effectively capture “lightning in a bottle,” which is how I describe the challenge of building products using consumer science techniques. Product leadership requires optimism. Small wins cloud judgment. Scrape the barnacle.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 30, 2020

A large part of their success can be attributed to effective cross-functional data leadership. 3 Keys to Strong Cross-Functional Data Leadership. Strong cross-functional data leadership is dependent on more than just collaboration and communication. Sometimes, decisions will be led by user feedback or inspired by design.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 1, 2022

You can see from his intersection of product and business leadership experiences that he is the perfect person to help us better understand creating product strategy. I always start with the customer problem. Product strategy is 100% focused on the customer. [7:23] After our successful tests, we had to scale globally.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

We set ourselves a really clear sprint question, one that you can answer with a yes or a no… [and] at the end of 5 [user] tests, we’ll know how that the user would have answered that question… Unless a minimum of 3 – usually 4 or 5 – are a strong yes, it’s a fail and we’ll have to go back around again.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

One of the co-organisers of the MtP Engage conference in Hamburg (and a featured speaker at the Leadership Forum this year), she gave a talk a while back on Egoless Product Development. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

She joined us on the podcast to talk about designing for children, ensuring that parents are happy, and designing to ensure that your customers take pride in what they accomplish. Translating consumer insights into business innovation. Translating consumer insights into business innovation. before founding a STEM startup.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

It made me appreciate how convenient entertainment had become on flights. In air entertainment is a great way for me to get my mind off of the fact that we are flying at 500mph somewhere around 30–40K feet in the air and if something goes wrong there is very little I can do to protect myself and my family. To myself I think?—?“oh

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Mind the Product

MARCH 31, 2020

How to make good user stories. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. How to make good user stories. It doesn’t exist by itself, it exists in a bigger context… [Adrienne Tan]. Listen if you’d like to learn more about.

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Innovatemap

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Sam brings to the table pithy and actionable leadership content. Industry veterans peel back the layers of complex topics, mixing in a healthy bit of entertaining banter. Users can customize content to focus on their interests.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Where it gets really hard is [when it comes to] business impact, customer impact, the costs of not doing it – that’s where the rubber hits the road, and that’s where I think it’s way more art than science. Quote of the Episode. Listen if you’d like to learn more about. Quote of the Episode. Feature requests. *

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Jimena Almendares has held senior product roles and leadership positions at Zynga and Meetup , and now runs the Global Expansion efforts for Intuit. Are they going to bring more customers? She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 15, 2021

This means that a user friendly design is even more important than ever before. Users may tolerate a poor interface, unattractive aesthetic or frustrating workflow for a product they use once or twice a week, but they will not put up with this from tools that are central to their lives and become part of their daily habits.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Tech was built on the idea that we get our products to scale, so we work really hard to get people to click to register, start a new trial, become a new customer – that’s what we live and die by in tech. Quote of the Episode. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

But as the initial story above shows, working with remote teams is not always conducive to achieving product success: When you work on a product that has not yet reached product-market fit or when you are planning to extend the life cycle of an existing offering, you should at least initially collocate the development team and key stakeholders.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

But as the initial story above shows, working with remote teams is not always conducive to achieving product success: When you work on a product that has not yet reached product-market fit or when you are planning to extend the life cycle of an existing offering, you should at least initially collocate the development team and key stakeholders.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It’s when you put all those things together in a way that you can actually articulate… and can actually deliver solutions to your customers – that’s when the ‘A-ha! She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

It really comes down to: listen to your customers and figure out what they want, and then build that thing – and build it really, really well. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Quote of the Episode. Early-stage venture capital.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Its host, Michael Luchen, explores how to do product management the best in terms of product strategy and vision, product development frameworks, customer research, and startups. They believe that no topic is off-limits if it helps inspire and build an amazing digital experience for users – and a product people actually want.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. He joined us to talk about startup life, scaling, making hard decisions, and more.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

It’s the optimisation of that system to create better customer outcomes. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. It’s the optimisation of that system to create better customer outcomes.

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Mind the Product

MAY 1, 2019

Over the course of her career, Donna Lichaw has moved from Design and UX to Product – consulting with teams, giving keynotes and working with leadership groups – but what she’s always focused on is storytelling. Anything you believe to be true is a hypothesis until you go test it. Links mentioned in this episode.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Tech was built on the idea that we get our products to scale, so we work really hard to get people to click to register, start a new trial, become a new customer – that’s what we live and die by in tech. Quote of the Episode. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Having spoken at conferences twice this year on the subject of design and emotion, I was spurred into writing this post by the number of people who gave me positive feedback. It may sound obvious but emotionally-engaged customers are more likely to recommend, more likely to repurchase, and are less price sensitive.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 11, 2020

The three magic questions] What are the user and customer behaviours that drive business results? She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. The three magic questions] What are the user and customer behaviours that drive business results?

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Mind the Product

JULY 23, 2019

The three magic questions] What are the user and customer behaviours that drive business results? She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. The three magic questions] What are the user and customer behaviours that drive business results?

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Here is a simple test: Close your eyes and gently observe your breath. Secondly, a major success factor for every product person is to develop empathy for the users and customers. The development team may be able to refine some of the user stories without you, for example. Tip #1: Don’t Rush. Tip #3: Take Proper Breaks.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 28, 2017

The business has three types of user, – those that build fundraising pages, those that donate to the pages, and the charities or nonprofits that the money goes to. A lot of product management content focuses on the final feature and assumes that everything went fine in testing. Jamie has worked at JustGiving for seven years.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

the craft of product management, creating customer and business value) 2. the craft of product management, creating customer and business value) The secret is out. Creating a great product that creates customer and business value is tough. Product vision, strategy, goal setting User experience. Craft Competence ??

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Curious, I went through the interview process to put my learnings to the test. Second interview is on product sense to see whether you can come up with interesting, customer-friendly product solutions. The trick to doing mocks is to make it feel real Ideal way to practice is to get feedback on how to improve.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Since then he’s had his share of successes and failures in a storied career spanning the US and Europe, and in this entertaining and insightful talk from Mind the Product San Francisco he distills those 20 years into 12 key lessons. Dave Wascha started as a product manager 20 years ago working on Internet Explorer 4.0.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2019

She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. After launching Amazon’s music stores in the US and UK, Randy has worked with museums and arts groups, online education, media & entertainment, retail and financial services.

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